Out Sept.3, 2012.
Distributed Worldwide by Kompakt.
10” EP - Pink Vinyl - Full Analog Letterpress sleeve - 300 copies.
#2/3 of the trilogy.
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Ssaliva – Sync Thrills
by Laurent Fintoni.
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The year is 3030. Somewhere in the dark alleys of a megalopolis located in what used to be the European mainland continent stands an unmarked door. Upon entering you’re confronted with
rows upon rows of people lying down, eyes closed on metallic bunk beds, their heads covered by something resembling headphones, but bigger. Their bodies are still, the random twitching triggered
by REM the only thing betraying them as alive.
Your eyes catch the counter near the entrance. An old Asian man is smoking and looking emptily ahead of him. As you approach he offers you a pair of headphones and points to an empty bed. The
only words he utters are ‘plug in and feel the thrill of the sync.’ As you sit down on the bunk bed you notice a box protruding from its top edge: the smooth surfaces bare of anything aside from what
looks like a hole on one side. Handling the headphones you notice that they end in a shape that fits the hole. You lie down, turn around and plug in before putting on the headphone apparatus and
closing your eyes.
All of a sudden you find yourself transported to a strange world, one you know is not real yet feels realer than anything you experience in daily life. This world’s features and attributes gradually
start to shift over time, becoming something new yet the experience remains constantly pleasant. You’ve taken a sleeping pill in audio format and your metaphysical self has been transmuted to an
imaginary dream world crafted by the music. Welcome to Sync Thrills.
The alias of Belgian producer Francois Boulanger, Ssaliva was created for ambient explorations of a new kind. Consisting of a trilogy of 10” EP releases on Vlek Data this exploratory work began on
the RZA EP and continues with the Sync Thrills EP, where it reaches a new apex. If the music on RZA were sonic dream vignettes, etchings found at the back of one’s retina upon waking up, Sync Thrills
is the soundtrack to an imaginary science fiction movie, a soundtrack with narcoleptic properties.
Spread across eight short tracks, the music on Sync Thrills feels at times like a sonic exploration of club music through a thick layer of sleeplessness and drug abuse. Taro sounds like Clams Casino
asleep at his laptop, the pitched down vocal chants triggered by a nervous twitch. Yet Another Vase is slurred hip hop, hidden under a fog of fuzz and guitar melodies. Ave is slowed-down techno
echoing back to you via the corridors of a gigantic club. Uranus 7766 is music for cryogenic space travel. AA Floor is the epic ending to a night on the dancefloor of your subconscious.
Released in September 2012 by Vlek Data, Sync Thrills will be available as a pink 10” vinyl with full analogue letterpress sleeve limited to 300 copies. As always with Vlek’s releases it is as engrossing
physically as it is sonically.